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Ceez, the owner of Ceez Genesis Salon, doesn't believe in fitting in. Instead, she stands out from the crowd and helps her clients do the same. She adopted this perspective from her grandmother and nurtured it by becoming a model, a makeup artist, and a mentor for the young style mavens who've crossed her path. After a stint on the West Coast, she returned to her Indiana stomping grounds to found a salon that helps clients from all cultures flaunt their inner beauty on the outside. Here, four stylists and a master barber shear and color locks as an aesthetician performs facials with ilike products made from organic, handpicked fruits, veggies, and herbs. Staffers also tend to brows and beards by removing unwanted hair and pesky dandelion patches.

Lather Spa & Salon's experienced staff hones headscapes into snazzy, fashionable styles using tried-and-true products such as Redken, Aquage, Brocato, and Gage For Men. During a cut and condition, the scalp artist cuts haughty locks down to size ($15 for kids 12 and under, $18 for kids 13–15, $20 for men's cuts, $40 for women's cuts/styles) and soothes and smoothes hair with a deep-conditioning treatment ($25 value). With today's second option, the hairsmith not only graces follicles with a cut and conditioning treatment, but also adds a glamorous application of highlights or lowlights ($95+ for full highlights or lowlights with cut, $25 conditioning treatment) to accentuate strands and disguise heads from lovelorn birds.

Strawberry Blonde Salon & Spa whisks away unwanted whiskers with warm wax, transforming hirsute hides into silky monuments to smoothness. Lay back and relax as licensed cosmetologist and waxing specialist Dessi White summons her follicular expertise to tenderly depilate your epidermis. Two 15-minute waxes keep eyebrows looking streamlined, helping them to clearly indicate subtle emotions such as the surprise felt when presented with a gift, as well as the dismay that takes hold when that gift turns out to be a subpoena. Further south on the corporal compass, a traditional bikini wax preps bodies for the beach or pool in just 30 minutes, and a 45-minute Brazilian wax bestows below-the-belt pelts with total bareness as well as the ability to speak fluent Portuguese.

From working as a makeup artist on daytime drama One Life to Live to enhancing the faces that grace Redbook, Brenda Sotolongo has spent the past 32 years helping her clients feel beautiful in their skin. She and her staff, licensed aestheticians with nine years of make-up industry experience in television and film, share this expertise during makeup-application classes, teaching techniques and tricks to contour cheekbones, augment pouts, and downplay newly evolved gills. In order to address common skin issues such as acne and sun damage, Sotolongo has also created her own line of cosmetics called ProSoto, which are packed with minerals and vivid pigments and lack pore-clogging ingredients and harsh dyes.

Amy draws on her 22 years of professional experience as she cuts and colors the hair of her clients in her private studio inside Sola Salon. Additional services include the keratin infused Brazilian Blowouts which semi-permanently combat frizz, hair extensions for all hair textures and lengths, and facial waxing.